What's the difference between boundaries and pet?

Boundaries


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Boundary

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Patients with papillary carcinoma with a good cell-mediated immune response occurred with much lower infiltration of the tumor boundary with lymphocyte whereas the follicular carcinoma less cell-mediated immunity was associated with dense lymphocytic infiltration, suggesting the biological relevance of lymphocytic infiltration may be different for the two histologic variants.
  • (2) In contrast, boundary layer diffusion is operative in the release from the matrixes prepared by compression of physical mixtures.
  • (3) The review will now be delayed for five years, leaving the next election to be fought on the existing constituency boundaries, and seriously damaging David Cameron's chances of winning an overall majority in 2015.
  • (4) In Europe such escapees often find themselves recaptured by boundary adjustments.
  • (5) This gene was previously shown to have a DNase I- and S1-sensitive site for which the boundaries varied with the cell cycle, and we have now precisely mapped these modifications.
  • (6) Past measurements have shown that the intensity range is reduced at the extremes of the F0 range, that there is a gradual upward tilt of the high- and low-intensity boundaries with increasing F0, and that a ripple exists at the boundaries.
  • (7) The problem, however, is that this scale of economic planning and management is entirely outside the boundaries of our reigning ideology.
  • (8) His first ball reaches Ali at hip height and he flicks him to fine leg for a boundary that takes him to a quite epic century.
  • (9) Upon estimation of 5' and 3' boundaries, a 497 base stretch of homology with the TOP1 mRNA was found.
  • (10) Responses above the associated boundary decreased stimulus intensity, responses below the associated boundary increased stimulus intensity.
  • (11) The position of the sedimenting boundary can be observed at any time during the run, and up to six 'photographs' can be recorded for subsequent analysis.
  • (12) If figurative language is defined as involving intentional violation of conceptual boundaries in order to highlight some correspondence, one must be sure that children credited with that competence have (1) the metacognitive and metalinguistic abilities to understand at least some of the implications of such language (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980; Nelson, 1974; Nelson & Nelson, 1978), (2) a conceptual organization that entails the purportedly violated conceptual boundaries (Lange, 1978), and (3) some notion of metaphoric tension as well as ground.
  • (13) First, chains are constrained by their inability to penetrate the boundary.
  • (14) Within the developing CNS of mouse embryos the anterior boundaries of expression are specific for each gene.
  • (15) Cities and counties across the US have also passed laws that prohibit such performances from occurring within their boundaries.
  • (16) The rate of forward patch movement was generally greater at positions further behind the boundary.
  • (17) He said the proposals had been directed at seats that have not changed hands for many years, but said with the redrawing of the constituency boundaries required by David Cameron's desire to cut the number of constituencies no safe seats as previously defined would exist.
  • (18) A line iterative technique is described to solve numerically the resulting coupled system of nonlinear partial differential equations with physiologically relevant boundary and entrance conditions.
  • (19) Many Iranian women are already pushing the boundaries , and observers in Tehran say women who drive with their headscarves resting on their shoulders are becoming a familiar sight.
  • (20) And then, as the Guardian revealed at the weekend, there is the potentially devastating effect of the boundary changes, which can’t really be brought in before an early election but will radically tilt the field by 2020.

Pet


Definition:

  • (n.) A cade lamb; a lamb brought up by hand.
  • (n.) Any person or animal especially cherished and indulged; a fondling; a darling; often, a favorite child.
  • (n.) A slight fit of peevishness or fretfulness.
  • (a.) Petted; indulged; admired; cherished; as, a pet child; a pet lamb; a pet theory.
  • (v. t.) To treat as a pet; to fondle; to indulge; as, she was petted and spoiled.
  • (v. i.) To be a pet.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In cases with unilateral hypoperfusion, the percentage of the activity in the lesion to that in the contralateral normal cortex on the early SPECT was correlated well with that on CBF measured by PET (r = 0.870, p less than 0.001).
  • (2) However, localizing a functional region with PET has been severely limited by the poor resolving properties of PET devices.
  • (3) The PET studies suggest dysfunction of the prefrontal cortex as a result of damage to the lentiform nuclei.
  • (4) If the PET measurement is commenced prior to arteriovenous equilibrium, significant errors occur in calculated CBV.
  • (5) Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and positron emission tomography (PET) are now being used to improve the information available from radioisotopic imaging of patients with cancer.
  • (6) The muscarinic receptor agonist carbachol had no significant effects on [3H]PEt and [3H]IP formation in nontransfected HEK cells.
  • (7) Appropriate corrections for atrophy should be employed if current PET scanners are to accurately measure actual brain tissue metabolism in various pathologic states.
  • (8) Using a 1-stage random-digit dial telephone survey, we estimated the number of pet dogs and cats and cancer case ascertainment in the principal catchment area of an animal tumor registry in Indiana, the Purdue Comparative Oncology Program (PCOP).
  • (9) Such information could be most useful for in vivo receptor visualization studies using positron emission tomography (PET) scanning.
  • (10) Half the adolescents completed the child maltreatment instrument first, while the rest completed the pet maltreatment instrument.
  • (11) In this study, PET images were obtained using [18F]-labeled fluorodeoxyglucose, a marker for glucose metabolism.
  • (12) The global black market in animal and plants, sold as food, traditional medicines and exotic pets, is worth billions and sees an estimated 350 million specimens traded every year.
  • (13) The distribution of 1-11C-acetoacetic acid after injection into adult Wistar rats and cats was investigated by PET.
  • (14) If we start letting movie stars – even though they’ve been the sexiest man alive twice – to come into our nation (with pets), then why don’t we just break the laws for everybody?” Joyce said at the time.
  • (15) We have developed a method that allows two sets of regional cerebral metabolic rates of glucose (rCMRglc) to be obtained in a single extended procedure using positron emission tomography (PET) and [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG).
  • (16) Metabolic PET studies also give insight into pathophysiologic mechanisms of epilepsy.
  • (17) In view of the number of PET studies involving low count rate acquisitions, there has been increasing interest recently in the development of positron cameras capable of fully three-dimensional acquisition and reconstruction.
  • (18) We performed dynamic positron emission tomographic (PET) studies of glucose utilization, using (18F) 2-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG), in patients with probable Alzheimer's disease (AD) and healthy age-matched controls, to evaluate blood-brain-barrier glucose transport and glucose utilization rates in the disease.
  • (19) We used a 11C-glucose method for positron emission tomography (PET) while estimating cerebral glucose metabolism during human sleep with polysomnography (PSG).
  • (20) His mother is Denise Welch, late of Corrie and Loose Women, and his father his Tim Healy, who was briefly famous 30 years ago for his role in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.

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